Northern Kentucky Field and Forest Club - 5 to 11 p.m. May 15, Lloyd’s Wildlife Management Area, Crittenden. Cost for practice targets is $3 for 25 for youth or $3.50 for adults. All trap shooters of any age are invited. Call John Mullins at 823-0421 for more information.

Senior Dalton Hoffman won first place at the GCHS talent show March 18. He sung "I Will Follow You Into The Dark" and played an acoustic electric guitar. Kendall Hopper, won Grand Champion Talent for the third consecutive year at the Grant County Middle School talent show on March 26.

At GCMS, Casey Hinton won first place in the instrumental category, Libby Gbur and Shelby Courtney won first for vocal duet, Courtney Jo Young won first for vocal solo and Daniel Crockett won first place for his dance routine.

Hayley Frances Leach won the title of Miss Kentucky Junior Teen America in January. To win the title Leach competed in four areas of competition, including private interview, talent/spokesmodel, physical fitness and evening gown and was the only one in the pageant’s history to score perfectly on the private interview segment.

It was rainy and dark at 6 a.m. May 2 when Jeff Walters loaded a crowded bus traveling toward the hills of Eden Park in Cincinnati.

Walters, of Dry Ridge, was preparing to participate in his seventh Flying Pig Marathon as part of the Performance Pipe four-man relay team. His bib number, 8582, matched that of teammates Phillip Foley, of Hebron, Ky., Norm Hageman, of Plano, Texas, and Barrett Jesseph, of Knoxville, Tenn.